July 01, 2009
Promotion Advice
A new group of librarians going up for promotion are in the process of identifying references, writing personal statements and compiling their dossiers. What advice do you have for colleagues who are in the midst the promotion process? What about colleagues who may be thinking about promotion in the next year or two? What advice do you have for them about what they should be doing now to be better prepared for promotion in the future?
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April 22, 2008
ALA's Core Competencies of Librarianship
Brian Kenney, at School Library Journal, has an editorial about ALA's Core Competencies of Librarianship, a document prepared by ALA's Presidential Task Force on Library Education. Apparently the guidelines were presented at a public meeting but the document doesn't appear to be widely available. I've searched for it, to no avail--I hope effective searching isn't one of the core competencies, otherwise my librarian credentials might be stripped from me. If you find a copy of the competencies, please share them. In the meantime, here's a copy of a draft statement of core competencies from July, 2005.
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March 28, 2008
Deb DeGeorge / Kevin Hawkins
Deb DeGeorge, Rare- and Non-Book Cataloger, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Kevin Hawkins, Electronic Publishing Librarian, SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING OFFICE
Deb: I would like to share both the wonderful materials with which I work, so that more staff are aware that we have such things, and the detail that goes into accurately describing rare materials (both as a representation of cataloging in general, and of rare-books cataloging specifically).
I would like to observe in DLPS, preferably with staff involved in metadata creation.
I would simply like to be part of increasing awareness of the duties of staff outside of my unit, and to show outside staff that cataloging happens for a reason.
Kevin: I oversee SPO's routine publishing operations and develop procedures for ingestion of content from source formats we haven't worked with before. I am prepared to discuss the digital library infrastructure used and developed by SPO, plus our local metadata practices.
I would like to learn more about cataloging, in particular cataloging of serials and electronic resources.
I hope that we can establish a better workflow between SPO and Technical Services for the creation of metadata for SPO content.
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Jennifer Nardine / Catherine Soehner
Catherine Soehner, Director, ART, ARCHITECTURE, SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Jennifer Nardine, Public Services Librarian, UNDERGRADUATE LIBRARY
Jennifer: Working at the UGL requires flexibility. I spend time designing and delivering instruction sessions, working at the reference desk and in online reference, selecting materials and organizing several special projects. I'd be happy to share any of these with someone if they'd be interested.
I would like to observe someone in administration - the higher up the better. I'd like to get an idea of what is possible to advance towards; what duties are entailed, what skills are needed, what I would no longer do that I do now if I went into administration.
I hope that, by observing someone already in administration, I can a) decide if it's something I'm interested in pursuing and b) tailor my current activities as stepping stones for advancement.
Catherine: I would be able to share any of the following activities with a colleague: Leading and participating in group meetings; Specific skills and personal attributes necessary to guide individuals and groups to success; Juggling a wide variety and number of tasks; Skills necessary to move forward in a library career, such as networking, resume building, interviewing, taking initiative, understanding the culture of an institution, setting goals, etc.
I would like to observe a different reference desk beyond AAEL or Science and I would like to observe an active Ask Us session.
I would hope to clarify similarities and differences to approaching reference services in different library settings. I would hope to create a mentoring relationship with the person observing me.
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Shevon Desai/David Fulmer
David Fulmer, Electronic Access Specialist, TECHNICAL SERVICES
Shevon Desai, Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY
David: I’m interested in observing the reference desk of the Graduate Library, chat reference etc. I expect to learn more about public services so I can improve our collaboration when helping patrons access e-resources.
Shevon: I would like to become more familiar with the working of the technical services division - any and all aspects. A particular area of interest is the new Electronic Access Unit and how they now deal with outages, along with their other duties.
I hope that I would have a better general understanding of the daily processes that occur in the library. I would hope that I would be able to anticipate correctly which library unit would address particular issues. This would definitely help me in providing better reference services to our patrons in general and more specifically, to faculty members from my department (Comm Studies).
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March 11, 2008
Merle Rosenzweig / Anna Schnitzer
Merle Rosenzweig, InfoPoint Librarian, TAUBMAN MEDICAL LIBRARY
Anna Schnitzer, InfoPoint Librarian, TAUBMAN MEDICAL LIBRARY
Sue Wortman, Women's Studies Librarian, GRADUATE LIBRARY REFERENCE
Sally Lawler, Public Services Librarian, SOCIAL WORK LIBRARY
Merle: [I’d like learn more about] outreach, teaching various open classes, attending meetings. I would like to get a better understanding of the operations and activities of the Health Sciences Libraries.
Anna: [I’d like to share some of my experiences with] outreach, teaching open classes, attending meetings about disability issues. I’m interested in seeing how this system of SkillShare works and whether it leads to broader understanding of what colleagues do.
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February 15, 2008
Emerging technology - impact on higher education
The 2008 Horizon Report identifies six areas of emerging technology that will have a significant impact on higher education in the near future. The 2008 report examines the following areas:
* Grassroots Video
* Collaboration Webs
* Mobile Broadband
* Data Mashups
* Collective Intelligence
* Social Operating Systems
Share your own understanding/vision of the use or impact of these or other emerging technologies in the academic library.
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2008 Horizon Report
From EDUCAUSE reports:
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next one to five years. The 2008 report focuses on the following topics;
* Grassroots Video
* Collaboration Webs
* Mobile Broadband
* Data Mashups
* Collective Intelligence
* Social Operating Systems
To download the full report:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/2008HorizonReport/45926
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November 21, 2007
LIS Education - SI Dean - Questions, Comments &Suggestions.
SI Dean Martha Pollack will speak at the April Forum meeting. Last Spring we invited SI faculty to come and tell us about the changes in the SI curriculum, the revamping of the Foundations courses and the addition of a number of new specializations. This set the stage for more connections between SI and the Library.
What advice would you give Martha Pollack, the new Dean of SI, on preparing new librarians for the next 5 to 10 years?
What would you like to know about the LIS program at SI?
What skills would you like to see in LIS graduates?
Suggest collaborative projects between SI and the University Library.
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Vision of the first library - if built today ...
If we were building the first library today, what would that library look like organizationally, what services would we provide, what would we not do, and how would this shape the competencies of the librarians?
(Would they be called librarians? Would it be called a library?)
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Implications for training and skill development in a changing libraray world
If you believe libraries/librarians are changing or needed to change, what are the implications for training and skill development?
Where should this training be attained? Who funds it?
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Kinds of jobs/roles in libraries in the near future
What kinds of jobs/roles do you think will exist or should exist in the future (5 or 10 years)?
What are the characteristics of that job and person in it?
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Skills Evolution
What skills do you think you will need over the next ten years? How do you plan to get them?
As the competencies for the profession evolve over the next five to ten years, will the type of people attracted to the profession change?
Are the competencies/skills needed for public, digital, technical, scholarly resource services the same or different? How are they the same or different?
For those librarians with ten years experience, think about what your duties and skills were when you first started. Tell us how you think that relates to what you do now in terms of skills.
What do you think your responsibilities will be in ten years and how does that compare to your current position?
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November 05, 2007
Information Literacy Instruction in LIS
Join us for our first event co-sponsored with the Instructor College!
Information Literacy Instruction in LIS
Thursday, November 8th, 10am-11am
Graduate Library
Room 100
Loyd Mbabu, African Studies Librarian, wrote his dissertation on "A content analysis of information literacy courses in master’s degree programs of library and information studies". Come and learn about how information literacy is presented to students in a number of Library and Information Studies programs. We will also learn about what the library literature tells us about critical competencies for librarian instructors. After the presentations, participate in a lively discussion about how these findings might inform our own understanding of, and methods of addressing, information literacy issues in the context of our own work.
Please join the ongoing discussion on this blog by following the comments for this entry. (For help with difficulties posting comments, please contact Donna Hayward at dhayward@umich.edu.)
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